Posted by Jay2112 on February 15, 2022, at 15:57:52
In reply to Re: Canada leading way in psychadelic medicine, posted by Hugh on February 13, 2022, at 11:32:27
> Go Canada! Humphry Osmond, a psychiatrist working in Saskatchewan in the 1950s, was a pioneering researcher of psychedelics. He's the one who coined the word "psychedelic."
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphry_Osmond
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> Osmond's account of a peyote trip he took at the Native American Church:
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> https://www.psychedelic-library.org/peyote.htmAhhhh Saskatchewan...has about the population of a suburb of Buffalo..lol. I lived there, in Regina, for about a year. But, wish I was around there in the 50's!! I read about Osmond in Michael Pollan's book, and the Saskatchewan experiments. Pollan experiments and accounts his 'trips' in the book, and Osmond's peyote experience above is incredible!
The psychedelic experience, it seems to be more comfortable at lower doses, provides a look into almost another'dimension'....a very, very different take on our mundane reality. That, in itself, seems to be the main benefit...to change our outlook on depressive, anxious, painful, scarred etc, everyday realities. We really have created a world that, with capitalism and the working-class reality, not only extremely boring, but so, so hard for many people. I personally don't see what is so wrong or bad about striving for a semi-utopia, to lessen so, so much of the pain the majority of the population feel. That is what people are trying to do with opiates, is to kill much of the pain from poverty, abuse, neglect, not 'fitting in', mundane existence....very much existential pain. If we can alter and treat this with psychedelics, I think we can get the strength to really change the world. Way beyond the 'opiate of the masses'...and I think that scares the crap out of the one percent of the population that live in luxury and decadence. Ok...I've said enough..lol..
Jay
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
-Don Miguel Ruiz-
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